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Dec
09

Excerpt from Nick Hornby’s “A Long Way Down”

Kraig Chambers
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“People go on about places like Starbucks being unpersonal and all that, but what if that’s what you want? I’d be lost if JJ and people like that got their way, and there was nothing unpersonal in the world. I like to know that there are big places without windows where no one gives a shit. You need confidence to go into small places with regular customers–small bokshops and small music shops and small restaurants and cafes. I’m happiest in the Virgin Megastore and Borders and Starbucks and PizzaExpress, where no one gives a shit, and no one knows who you are. My mum and dad are always going on about how soulless those places are, and I’m like, Der. That’s the point.”
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Nov
16

Fifth Business

Kraig Chambers
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Just finished a novel by Canadian author Robertson Davies. Last year I read his novel The Rebel Angels for english class and enjoyed it enough to ask my professor if the next two novels in that particular trilogy were worth reading. He told me not to bother with The Cornish Trilogy, which is the name of the trilogy that The Rebel Angels is the first of, but to read The Deptford Trilogy, also written by Robertson Davies.

Fifth Business is the first of the series and as much as I can’t say I enjoyed it as wholly as The Rebel Angels I can say that it is truly a more thought provoking novel. One that I enjoyed intellectually as well as emotionally.
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